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They will also carefully examine and report if in any instance a Justice of the Peace, Attorney for the Commonwealth, Grand Jury or other authority vested with the power of allowing or regulating the institution of criminal proceedings has refused justice to a colored person by improperly neglecting a complaint or declining to receive an oath or sworn information tendered by such person whereby a trial or prosecution might be prevented through partiality or prejudice. 

VI. All Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents will, on the last day of each month, make a detailed report of the manner in which this order, by restoring to the State authorities jurisdiction in criminal cases over colored persons, has resulted, with reference to the interests of the latter, within their respective districts and subdistricts, whether they have been treated with impartiality, and fairness, and the law respecting their testimony carried out in good faith or otherwise.

(signed)
O. Brown
Colonel and Assistant Commissioner
Official
Official
Col Ass Cdr : Encl
Max Woodhull
AAG